...pre-date that innovative player by a dozen years. His country blues and folk guitar picking is right in league with Leo Kottke and John Fahey. He's not a classical guitarist, but he has a flair for classical styles. He's played Renaissance...

...that's the music that McCormick enjoys most. The Whistling Swan lineup includes folk greats from the 1960s - Tom Rush, Leo Kottke and Ramblin' Jack Elliott - and newer arrivals on the national folk and bluegrass scene such as Alison Krauss and Ani...

...University of Michigan/) in Ann Arbor, she had seen Mississippi John Hurt and Son House play, and she also was a fan of Leo Kottke." His dad, Michael, a biochemist at the University of Oregon, became his booking agent. "An acoustic is not a...